Reinforcing and shape-keeping card for clothes.



's. 1). GILKERSON.

REINFOROING AND SEA-PE KEEPING CARD FOR CLOTHES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 25, 1912.

1,1 1 3,327. Patented Oct. 13, 1914 W/TA/ESSES:

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SOLOMON DAVID GILKERSON, or wrnivrrne, MA vIroBA, OANADA.

REINFORCING AND SHAPE-KEEPING cAnD ron cLorHEs.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 13, 1914.

, Application filed June 25, 1912. Serial No. 705,692.

To all whom it may concern Be it knownthat I, SOLOMON DAVID GIL- nnnsox,of the city of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, Canada, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Reinforcing andShape-Keeping Cards for Clothes, of which the following is thespecification.

The invention relates to a card insertible particularly within coatsprior to the coats being placed in boxes for delivery purposes and theobject of the invention is to provide an inexpensive and efficientdevice which will effectually prevent a coat from shifting within a boxand becoming wrinkled or creased.

The invention presently disclosed is in reality an improvement on myUnited States Patent NO. 1021593 dated the 26th day of March, 1912, fora similar invention.

The invention consists essentially in the arrangement and constructionof parts hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed outin the appended claim.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of the improved card. -Fig. 2 is across'sectional View of the card showing the tab bent to the position itoccupies when used in a coat and coat box. Fig. 3 represents a side Viewof the card.

In making a number of cards from a.

single sheet of cardboard in the manner disclosed inthe hereinbeforementioned patent I have found that there is considerable waste onaccount of the tab having to extend in each instance from the card. Thepresent invention overcomes this diifioulty by cutting the tab actuallyout of the body of the card.

Referring now to the drawings in which like characters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in each figure, 1 represents a pasteboardor other suitable thin card cut to present a shape similar to the backof a coat it having four corners cut away to present edges 2, 3, 4: and5 the edges 2 and 3 corresponding to the shoulder seam of the back ofthe coat while those 4: and 5 correspond to part of the side seamthereof. The sides 6 and 7 of the card intermediate between the edges 2,4: and 3, 5 respectively correspond with what is called the back arms ofthe coat back. The body of the card is cut centrally at 8 to form a tab9, the base 10 of which is more or less parallel with the upper edge 11of the strip 12 formed at the top of the card.

When the article is used the tab is forced downwardly and turned beneaththe narrow strip reserved at a at the top of the card. It is then turnedupwardly at 9 into a position more or less at right angles to the bodyof the card and has the extremity 9 thereof finally turned downwardly atan angle to the portion 9. The tab is creased or perforated at c, FcZand e-as indicated in dotted outline so that it will fold readily whendesired and thus forming a hinge portion 10, an intermediate portion 9and an end portion 9 It will be noted that when the tab is folded intoOperative position (see Fig. 2) the outer edge of the strip 11 forms astop or support for bracing the intermediate portion and limiting themovement thereof, thus preventing the portion 9 from becoming disengagedafter having once been placed between the sides of the box ashereinafter mentioned. F urthermore, the portion 9 has the appearance ofbeing an integral extension of the strip 11, thus giving a symmetricaland strong appearance to the card as a whole. It will be noted that thedistance between the creases c and d is the same as the distance betweenthe upper edge 11 of thecard and the crease 6. Thus by reason of thefact that the strip a at the top of the body is the same width as thehinged section'12, the tab is adapted to be readily folded in the mannerabove set forth.

The card is used in the same manner as the card described in theprevious patent. The card receives the coat the sides 6 and 7 enteringthe arm holes thereof, the portion 9 passes upwardly through the collarof the coat while the portion 9 thereof is passed between the sides ofthe box. I am not enlarging on the manner in which the card is used asthis is clearly described in my previous patent.

What I claim as my invention is A garment holding form comprising a mainfiat body constructed to fit within a garment, and a tab cut from saidbody along three of its sides forming a narrow strip at the top of saidbody, the fourth side remaining integral with said strip and parallelwith the top of the main body, said tab being scored transverselybeneath its line of connection with said strip to form a hinge portionof approximately the same Width, Signed at Winnipeg, this 13 day ofApril, as said strip, and the free end of said top 1912.

being transversely creased whereby said tab may be bent under the mainbody, SOLOMON DAVID GILKERSON' thence upwardly at right angles thereto,and In the presence of thence outwardly to form a holding mem- G. S.ROXBURGH, ber for the main body. L. GOULD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing'the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G."

